Humboldt State University Department of Geology
Useful Graph Papers

The documents below are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. You will need the Adobe Acrobat reader or browser plug-in to view and print the PDF files. You can obtain it for free from this link: Acrobat Reader.

The graph paper originals are 300 dpi bitmap images. When you view them in Acrobat, some may look blurry or will have lines that fade out. This is due to the mapping of the original 300 dpi to the screen resolution. Don't let poor on-screen appearance worry you -- the papers will print just fine.
 

Equations of Straight Lines on Various Graph Papers

This document describes step-by-step how to determine the equations of straight lines plotted on linear, semi-log, and log-log graph paper. Includes diagrams and examples.

Rainfall frequency paper (pdf)

Graph paper for plotting frequency of mean annual rainfall
 
USGS arithmetic extreme-value (Gumbel) paper (pdf)
Graph paper for plotting flood frequency
 
USGS logarithmic extreme-value (log-Gumbel) paper (pdf)
Graph paper for plotting flood frequency
 
Arithmetic-probability (probability x 90 divisions) paper, b&w (pdf)
Arithmetic-probability (probability x 90 divisions) paper, color (pdf)
 
Log-probability paper -- 2 log cycles, b&w (pdf)
Log-probability paper -- 2 log cycles, color (pdf)
 
Log-probability paper -- 3 log cycles, b&w (pdf)
 
Logarithmic 3 x 3 cycle, b&w (pdf)
Logarithmic 3 x 3 cycle, color (pdf)
 
Logarithmic 3 x 5 cycle, b&w (pdf)
Logarithmic 3 x 5 cycle, color (pdf)
 
Logarithmic 4 x 3 cycle, b&w (pdf)
Logarithmic 4 x 3 cycle, color (pdf)
 
Semilogarithmic 2 log cycles x 40 divisions, b&w (pdf)
Semilogarithmic 2 log cycles x 40 divisions, color (pdf)
 
Semilogarithmic 4 log cycles x 70 divisions, b&w (pdf)
Semilogarithmic 4 log cycles x 70 divisions, color (pdf)
 
USGS Bagnold particle-size frequency paper, color (pdf)
 

 


Andre Lehre
Last updated: 4 October 2002

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